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When I Change The Way I Look At Life, Life Begins to Change & The Thoughts You Hold Onto Create Our Reality

By: Natalie Muir

This is something my dad used to say to me when I was growing up. I think he was trying to teach me to believe in myself, to understand that whatever I chose to believe could become my truth, my version of reality. At the time, I didn’t fully grasp how deep that idea actually went.

Not long after, my mum gave me a book called Sophie’s World. It’s a novel that slowly introduces philosophy through the story of a young girl called Sophie, who begins receiving mysterious letters questioning the nature of existence, Who are you? Where does the world come from? Then it was revealed that Sophie herself wasn’t real,  that she was just a character inside someone else’s story, something in me cracked open. I was only thirteen, and it sent me into a spiral of fear and dread. If she wasn’t real, what did that mean about me? About reality itself?

For a while, that realisation destabilised me. But as I grew older and found my footing, I began to experience it differently. Instead of something terrifying, it became something powerful. Almost magical. I started to notice how closely my inner world and my outer experience were linked. When I clung to thoughts of fear, scarcity, or suffering, that was exactly what my life reflected back to me. And when I managed to shift my thinking toward hope, acceptance, trust, and joy, my experience of reality changed with it.

In this piece, the two eyes represent two options. Two ways of seeing. Two versions of reality that are always available to us. One shaped by fear and unconscious thought patterns, the other shaped by awareness and choice. The work isn’t saying one is easy or that we control everything, only that perception matters more than we’re taught to believe. And that the way we look at the world quietly determines the world we end up living in.